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This Is due to the fact that its operations in the bud, destroying 

 all the foliage and fruit which normally would come from that 

 point, are particularly serious to the vineyardists since a very little 

 feeding in this manner causes an enormous loss. This pest, as is 

 well known, feeds upon the foliage in June as small brown grubs. 

 Spraying at this time will destroy the young and largely reduce 

 the numbers of beetles which can winter and attack the buds in 

 early spring. 



White flower cricket (Oecanthus niveus DeG.). The 

 slender, whitish adults of this species are rather common during 

 the latter part of the season and the oviposition scars made by the 

 females are frequently met with in twigs and the stouter her- 

 baceous plants. Occasionally this species is so abundant as to 

 cause considerable injury, as was the case in the vicinity of Ripley, 

 N. Y., during the fall of 1905, though the injury was not observed 

 till early the following spring. Mr F. A. Morehouse of Ripley, 

 under date of April 30, 1906, submitted specimens of the work 

 of this insect and stated that some vineyards were very badly af- 

 fected, many of the canes dying from the wounds inflicted. The 

 investigation showed that the greatest injury wias in vineyards 

 where an abundant weedy growth was present. The most effective 

 method of preventing trouble of this character is clean culture, 

 since flower crickets display a marked preference for weedy places. 



Garden insects 



Twelve spotted asparagus beetle (Crioceris duodecim- 

 punctata Linn.) . This species was observed last July breeding 

 rather abundantly on a small plot of asparagus at Westfield, N. Y. 

 in association with the common asparagus beetle C. asparagi 

 Linn. It was not quite as abundant as the latter form though 

 specimens were easily found on the vines and a number captured. 

 This more recent introduction is already widely though locally dis- 

 tributed in New York State. 



Dark sided cutworm (Paragrotis messoria Harr.) . 

 This rather common caterpillar was responsible for serious injury 

 to primroses and other garden plants at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 

 The attack occurred during the latter part of May. This cutworm, 

 when full grown, is something over an inch long, dingy ash-gray 

 in color, darker on the sides, with a dark, dingy dorsal line. Each 

 segment is marked with eight small, black, hair-bearing tubercles 

 arranged in two groups of four. The posterior extremity has a 

 greenish tinge and the under surface and legs are somewhat lightef 

 than the upper. 



